Make Space Meditation + Care

Hello and good morning, friends. How are things on this Monday? Today, we’re spending some time with our friends quiet and ease. Sometimes it feels so easy (no pun intended) to make things difficult or to make them feel difficult, especially in this space of starting a new week. What if we approached it a little differently? What if we could find a little quiet, a little sense of ease, and keep th...

Hello and good morning, friends. How are things? As we’ve been working through lovingkindness practice in the daily meditations, I have been thinking a lot about connection with ourselves and each other. In a world that feels more and more divided, what a radical act to look at the connection instead. Today, we do just that with our little visit to the archive for this meditation. Thank you for be...

Hello and good morning, friends. How are things? We’re here again at the start of the week. I thought perhaps a nice way to be together this morning is a practice of attention. We’ll spend time with the breath, but also noticing what’s here in us and around us. I hope that finding time for this practice helps whatever your day might hold. I know it’s especially easy sometimes on a Monday (or any d...

Hello and good morning, friends. How are things? One of the things that has been really wonderful about concentrating on lovingkindness practice in the daily meditations has been returning each day to a sense of connection. My experiences in the world, especially lately, have felt like encouragement to disconnect . But every breath can be something that brings us back. When I’ve been on retreat, i...

Hello and good morning! A new day. A new week. A new moment. Some of my favorite things, as many of you know. Today, we’re focused on just being here. What is it to be here with your breath, body, mind, and heart in this very moment? What a kindness it is to yourself and to others in your life to take this time to just be. I am reminded this morning of the great Zen master Maezumi Roshi who used t...

Hello, friends. Good morning. In the daily meditations, we’ve been exploring lovingkindness and so connection has been on my mind a lot lately. It’s also a new week (if you have a traditional schedule) and how do we really prepare ourselves for what’s ahead? Today’s meditation is bringing us to the breath so that we can find maybe a bit of foundation for the week ahead. There also some other theme...

Hello hello, friends. We began talking about lovingkindness earlier this week, focusing on ourselves to start. (If you’re not part of our daily meditations and would like to be, I hope you’ll find consider subscribing .) We’re continuing that practice today. I think that beginning our practice of lovingkindness with ourselves before moving on to others helps us to do what can be so difficult in so...

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Hello hello, friends. We’re here with the exhale today, noticing how it can help us release and relax. It’s not just because it’s Friday (if it is indeed a “Friday” to your schedule), but because times are out here being wild. I am thinking today about the Supreme Court decision on trans care in Tennessee. I’m thinking of the loss of life around the world. I am thinking of the small things every d...

Hello and good morning, friends. I am thinking a lot today about how so much of what we practice in our meditations can start to really impact time outside of our practice. The more that we do this, the easier it becomes to see those effects. Today, our intention is to keep things quiet and easy, two adjectives you might not always use for a Monday. But here we are: practicing with maybe what we’d...

Hello and good morning, friends. How is your day? We're spending time over the next few days exploring what it is to slow down. If you feel like life has you going and going and going and… then these meditations are going to be especially for you. If you feel like your mind can’t slow down during meditation (or otherwise), I hope you’ll also explore how having this intention might help. Slowing do...

Hello and good morning, friends. We are indeed together again on a Monday. Today, we’re spending time with quiet and this intention of holding some ease and chill. When distractions arise, we’re keeping it easy. Maybe just knowing that for the next few minutes, all you have to be is right here with the breath brings a sense of that too. Whatever we practice in our meditation has the possibility of...

Hello and good morning, friends! We’re spending time with our expectations today. Even already this morning, things have not gone as I planned. It seems so easy to get wrapped up in what I think should be happening and miss what’s really here, only to be annoyed later at the whole thing. Maybe you can relate in something about this morning or this week? Today, we’re exploring what it is to hold ev...

Hello hello, friends. Monday’s here again. How are you? For today, we’re keeping a bit of this beginning again feel to things, remembering that the breath is an excellent example of how this is done. As distractions come up, we can remember that each exhale is a letting go, each inhale the opportunity to be with the moment. So we’re in this flow of being with what arises and letting it go. I know...

Hello hello, friends. How are you? How’s the day? As many of you know, I love a new month, day, moment. One of the things meditation practice has taught me is that we can begin (or begin again) as many times as we need, with whatever we might be doing. So today’s invitation is to meditation . If you’ve had a practice, have wanted one, have thought about it numerous times, have fallen on and off th...

Hello hello, friends. How has your week been? Today’s meditation is one I think I needed this morning myself. Sometimes when things are shifting either in small or big ways, getting still is the last thing that I want to do. Maybe you too? But when I don’t want to find that stillness is when I know that I need it. That’s not to say we shouldn’t move things through our bodies with actual movement,...

Hello and good morning, friends. We’re spending time just simply being with what’s here today. We’re checking in, breathing, and allowing ourselves to be with what is, just as it shows up. Thank you for being here. 💗 Take care. This meditation is from the archive. It was originally shared on 11.18.24. ✨ A brand new week means a brand new opportunity to meet yourself and your needs. If a little c...

Hello and good morning, friends. How are you? We’ve been spending some time this week with an idea of letting go, clearing the air, finding the exhale. I started out this morning with nothing going as planned, so if that’s you too maybe this particular is just for you. 💗 Thank you for being here, friends. 💗 Take care. This meditation is from the archive. It was first shared on 02.28.25. ✨ Indiv...

Hello, friends. Good morning. How are you? We have made it to Monday once more. Today’s meditation is hopefully supportive to the start of your week, this new day. I know that especially on days like a traditional Monday, we’re often ready to rush off to whatever is on our list, but I hope you’ll take today’s meditation as an invitation to pause, connect to the breath, to maybe find a little ease...

Hello and good morning, friends. How are you? Our time together today is focused on the quiet and stillness we find, even in the noise. It’s a little bit of holding both things, not one or the other. Whether there’s a lot of noise in or around you, there is the possibility of quiet also. I always think of this quiet center that exists in each of us, that we can always go back to if we need it. It’...

Hello and good morning, friends. How are you? Starting off a day, a week, a moment with the intention of finding the easy points always feels like a little bit of relief to me. As if the breath in these moments could guide us to a place where the tension in our bodies relaxes and we can go with the flow of what is here in this moment. I do think it can do that, even if for a moment. I hope you’ll...

Hello and good morning, friends. Happy Monday. We started bringing in this sense of invitation last week with the idea of beginning a meditation practice or beginning again. We’ve moved through a couple of other invitations, all to help you explore the practice a little bit. Today, we’re focused on slowing down. You might think about your day and the week ahead and think maybe there’s a lot to do...

Hello and good morning, friends. We’re still in this place of meditation practice invitation. One of the things about meditation that can feel like opportunity or very much the opposite is when we get distracted. I know from my own experience how discouraging it can feel to find out just how loud or busy our minds can be. It doesn’t have to be a negative though. The very act of beginning again wit...

Hello and good morning, friends. We’ve found this new month together and in it an invitation. Whether your meditation practice has fallen away or perhaps you’ve never quite gotten around to really giving it a try, the beginning of the month is especially for you. I hear often about how people want to meditate or have this sense that they “should.” In this invitation, there’s no shoulds or pushes o...

Hello and good morning, friends. We’re spending just a few minutes together to start our week. If you’ve been here for a little bit, you know I love the start of new week. I also love the start of a new month, which is coming up quickly. By May 1, there will be new classes added to the schedule , both online and in person. We’ll have walking and seated meditations as well as the return of lovingki...